Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. In Iraq's Anbar province we've ...
The Sept. 13 murder of Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha was tragic, but not catstrophic. His death does not change the vastly improved situation in Anbar Province, since his role in its pacification was ...
A bloody, age-old custom used by Iraqs powerful tribes to mete out justice has come under fire, with authorities classifying it as a "terrorist act" punishable by death. Members of an Iraqi clan ...
Two weeks into Mariam's forced marriage to her cousin according to Iraqi tribal custom, she desperately doused herself in fuel, flicked on a lighter and attempted suicide by self-immolation. Iraqi ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi tribal leader Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud and his men once helped U.S. Marines drive al Qaeda out of their Anbar Province stronghold. He doesn't even put up a brave face when it ...
2003-11-20 04:00:00 PDT Khan Thari, Iraq-- Passions run high on the sun-filled porch of Sheikh Thair Kamiz Thari al-Zubai, who heads the Zubai tribe in the heart of the Sunni triangle -- the ...
As U.S. President Barack Obama wades deeper into the war in Iraq, Sheik Wissam al-Hardan would appear to be just the kind of man America needs. He is a Sunni Muslim. He is from Anbar Province, the ...
largest tribes in Iraq and a powerful social, political and economic force, with ties to royal families across the Arab Gulf and the elite of neighbouring Jordan. It was a foundation of Saddam's Sunni ...
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